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2. Thyatira
3. #shinebright // #staystrong
4. “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is Revelation 2:18-29 (ESV)
5. teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will Revelation 2:18-29 (ESV)
6. know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. Only hold fast what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps my works Revelation 2:18-29 (ESV)
7. until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” Revelation 2:18-29 (ESV)
10. Reveal Remind Repent Reward
11. “…every bit of the Bible is profitable for us… it does tell us everything we need to know about what matters most.” Kevin DeYoung / Taking God At His Word
12. Comprehend
13. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)
14. Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively! 2 Corinthians 6:11-13 (MSG)
15. Commit
16. “I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.” Revelation 2:19 (ESV)
17. So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James 2:17 (ESV)
18. “It should be the ambition and earnest desire of all Christians that their last works may be their best works, that they may be better and better every day, and best at last.” Matthew Henry
19. Consecrate
20. But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. Revelation 2:20 (ESV)
21. We say no to some things so we can say yes to God in all things
22. Continue
23. But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. Only hold fast what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations… Revelation 2:24-26 (ESV)
24. Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service. Acts 3:1 (NLT)